Breakthrough
by Robert Beideman
Hello all....
It's been a while since I've been able to get onto NPN....moving across a number of state lines and spending a ton of time in the field will do that to a person, I suppose!
So, on my last full day in the Tetons during a recent trip, I decided to set up for sunrise in a less common/less traditional area of the park. Rather than heading for the usual suspects...we decided to head straight for a vast grass field that we'd seen the previous day.
My goal on this shoot was to set up for a pano of the Teton range...as I'd always been a believer in the idea that that particular range begged for this format. Hopefully, this one came out acceptably.
I'm open...as always...to all comments, critiques, and thoughts. Thank you for looking!
Robert
Comments
9 commentsI love the perspective here and the overall mood. It does feel as though the colours are 'pushed' a bit ito saturation (might just be my tired eyes
I've gone back and forth with the sky in this one regarding saturation. It's actually pulled down from the native images...but I've also pulled a lot of the blue hue out of the mountains in an attempt to give them a chance to be seen as a point of focus rather than blending too much with the sky. Perhaps the resulting contrast is rougher on the sky (may just be my aging eyes)...
Side Note: All my Tetons comps from this trip had a rough blue tone to the snow on the mountains in the RAW...and none of them looked realistic to my eye until some of the blue was pulled out.
@Harry...I'd spent the last 5 years living in Boston, but just recently relocated back toward the area that I grew up in (Eastern PA). And it was definitely multiple images put together (see my second post for a few details). No polarizer was used...but this was an image in almost predawn light...and I think that has something to do with the unusual coloring of the clouds.
Regardless....I've got a little more experimentation to do before this one is finalized!
Thanks again all!